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Wed 10 December 2025,
Thu 11 December 2025,
Fri 12 December 2025,
Sat 13 December 2025,
Mon 15 December 2025,
Tue 16 December 2025,
Wed 17 December 2025,
8 p.m.

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program-tapajos.pdf

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Full : 18 €
Discount Price : 14 €
IRCAM Pass : 10 €
Youth Pass : 8 €

Duration 1 hour 30 minutes

In Portuguese and Munduruku, with French and English subtitles

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Tapajós

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Part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris, Saison Brésil-France 2025 et de la Constellation du Centre Pompidou

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Content:
Brazilian director Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha uses the chemical processes of photography to expose mercury pollution in the Tapajós River. For over 12 years, her wide-ranging Riverbank Project: About Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies has amplified the testimony of rivers in crisis—and those who depend on them, human or otherwise. A theater of witness, voice-overs, nature, and revelation, in every sense of the word. Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, le fleuve Tapajós concept and direction Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Mafalda Pequenino performers Sofia Tomic, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio, Mafalda Pequenino et Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha creation Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio photography Alessandra Korap, Maria Leusa Munduruku, Ediene Munduruku, Chief Isaura Munduruku, Ana Carolina Alfinito, Paulo Basta, Julia Ferreira Corrêa, Mascarenhas, Dalva de Jesus Vieira, Osmar Vieira de Oliveira, Celiney Eulália de Oliveira Lobato, Rodrigo Oliveira, Mauricio Torres, Eric Jennings dramaturgy Jimmy Wong lighting Bruno Carneiro multimedia design Sio Duhi costumes Sofia Tomic, Ciro Schu, Jimmy Wong set design Clément Cerles IRCAM sound diffusion Tapajós - French Premiere <img src="/media/uploads/lignejaune-100x2.png" alt="" width="100" height="3" /> <img src="/media/uploads/carre-jaune.png" width="15" height="14" caption="false" />   Pre-performance:  Screening of the film La Chute du ciel (The Fall from the Sky) by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and Eryck Rocha, on September 13, at the Maison des Métallos. <img src="/media/uploads/carre-jaune.png" width="15" height="14" caption="false" />  Post-performance discussion with the artistic team <img src="/media/uploads/lignejaune-100x2.png" alt="" width="100" height="3" /> Production: Aruac Filmes, Corpo Rastreado, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Projeto Margens, Ariane Cuminale. Associated production: Associação de Mulheres Munduruku Pariri, Associação Sairé. General production: Gabi Gonçalves. Local production: Carolina Ribas. European distribution: Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne. Co-production: Wiener Festwochen – Frei Republik Wien, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre Pompidou – Department of Culture and Creation, Halles de Schaerbeek – Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La rose des vents – Scène nationale Lille Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, Next Festival – Théâtre Garonne, International Summer Festival Kampnagel. With support from: Associação Fotoativa, Clube do Analógico. With research and development support from: Manchester International Festival. Co-production: Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre Pompidou – Department of Culture and Creation. Co-production: IRCAM–Centre Pompidou

Brazilian director Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha uses the chemical processes of photography to expose mercury pollution in the Tapajós River. For over 12 years, her wide-ranging Riverbank Project: About Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies has amplified the testimony of rivers in crisis—and those who depend on them, human or otherwise. A theater of witness, voice-overs, nature, and revelation, in every sense of the word.

Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, le fleuve Tapajós concept and direction
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Mafalda Pequenino performers
Sofia Tomic, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio, Mafalda Pequenino et Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha creation
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, João Freddi, Vicente Otávio photography
Alessandra Korap, Maria Leusa Munduruku, Ediene Munduruku, Chief Isaura Munduruku, Ana Carolina Alfinito, Paulo Basta, Julia Ferreira Corrêa, Mascarenhas, Dalva de Jesus Vieira, Osmar Vieira de Oliveira, Celiney Eulália de Oliveira Lobato, Rodrigo Oliveira, Mauricio Torres, Eric Jennings dramaturgy
Jimmy Wong lighting
Bruno Carneiro multimedia design
Sio Duhi costumes
Sofia Tomic, Ciro Schu, Jimmy Wong set design
Clément Cerles IRCAM sound diffusion

Tapajós - French Premiere

Pre-performance: Screening of the film La Chute du ciel (The Fall from the Sky) by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and Eryck Rocha, on September 13, at the Maison des Métallos.
Post-performance discussion with the artistic team

Production: Aruac Filmes, Corpo Rastreado, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Projeto Margens, Ariane Cuminale. Associated production: Associação de Mulheres Munduruku Pariri, Associação Sairé. General production: Gabi Gonçalves. Local production: Carolina Ribas. European distribution: Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne. Co-production: Wiener Festwochen – Frei Republik Wien, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre Pompidou – Department of Culture and Creation, Halles de Schaerbeek – Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La rose des vents – Scène nationale Lille Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, Next Festival – Théâtre Garonne, International Summer Festival Kampnagel. With support from: Associação Fotoativa, Clube do Analógico. With research and development support from: Manchester International Festival. Co-production: Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre Pompidou – Department of Culture and Creation. Co-production: IRCAM–Centre Pompidou

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Co-production: Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre Pompidou – Department of Culture and Creation. Co-production: IRCAM–Centre Pompidou. The Centre Pompidou’s live performances are supported by Pernod Ricard.